Gilles Samoun (born 1965) is a French investor, tech serial entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley and France, pioneer and strong advocate of software as a service (SaaS) since he founded Qualys in early 1999, the cybersecurity leader which subsequently went public, listed on NASDAQ, in 2012.
[1] He is the founder and CEO of Salesmachine, a Customer Success Management platform which helps SaaS companies[2] increase conversion and adoption and prevent churn.
He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Paris.
In 2001 he was honored with the position of Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, now Balderton, one of Europe’s leading technology venture firms.
[5] Prior to Salesmachine, Gilles Samoun has been the CEO of NTRGlobal,[6] a SaaS company founded in Barcelona, Spain, Fotopedia, Solsoft[7] between 2003 and 2006, Qualys, and MediaPath Technologies Inc.